Howdy Foxperts,
The comments over in Chatter in the past week, no make that month, no wait! make that year, have prompted me to ask:
What can I show managment that will help explain the power of VFP and it's rapid IDE for data-centric applications?
I've succeeded at getting VFP on my desktop at work (for departmental apps only), but the corporation only begrudgingly allowed the purchase (It's not standard!! they cried) because my immediate manager (a non-IT person) approved it.
Talking to a departmental sub-head of IS (the one in charge of PC stuff whom I've know for many years) reveals that the stuff he reads about database apps in the trade press and from Microsoft suggests:
for Personal stuff: Access
for Small apps: Access
for Medium apps: Access or VB
for Big League stuff: SQL Server
Notice anything missing? With his permission I've forwarded URLs of some VFP whitepapers, but I'm asking the UT community's help in locating document(s) that show how VFP shines for small & medium & large apps, no matter how the data is stored. Maybe even Microsoft documents.
Thanks!
Randy Bosma
VFP - Because life is too short to code in something else...